Synopses & Reviews
"A factual record assembled in depth, this is an important contribution to the archives of integration and nondiscrimination." --Publishers Weekly
"... well-researched and informative... " --Journal of Southern History
"[Reed's] book brings a fascinating band of progressive Southerners into focus, some of them for the first time, and follows them from the late thirties into the sixties. They bear following, and remembering. So does this book."
Description
"Bibliographical essay":p. [191]-195. Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-245) and index.
About the Author
LINDA REED is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston.
Table of Contents
Chronology
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: A New Answer to the Old Questions of
Southern Proverty and Backwardness
Chapter 2: How the southern Conference Movement
Operated: Administration, Finances,
Membership, and Literature
Chapter 3: Alienation, Fear, and Red-baiting
Chapter 4: Making Poll Tax a National Issue
Chapter 5: Southern Liberalism and the Search for
Racial Justice during World War II
Chapter 6: Critical Years for SCHW
Chapter 7: The Perpetuation of an SCHW Legacy
Chapter 8: SCEF and the Challenge of Desegregation
Chapter 9: White Southern Backlash and the High
Price for a Just Cause
Conclusion
Bibliographical Essay
Appendix
Notes
Index